I initially didn’t read this post, fixated on “company event”, and thought it could be used for a single-day, one-off “thing to do tonight given (location) and (preferred activities/venue type) after (work end time)” It presented hotels and then some potential activities, but didn’t look up the time. When I asked about what is open after the time, the agent seemed to realize my request was not in your typical use case flow and gave me a refusal.
It’d be cool to offer one-off event suggestions, but I understand that’s probably not as easily monetizable.
Right now the AI flow is optimized for multi-day events where people stay at least one night, like offsites, retreats, and conferences. When you shifted it to a same-day “what should we do tonight after work” use case, you basically stepped outside its current planning model, so the refusal you saw is on us.
We do support day events and activities on the supply side, but they are not yet fully integrated into the AI agent flow. Over the next few weeks, we are plugging that inventory into the system so it can handle more one-off and shorter formats.
Monetization is part of the equation, but it is also a product focus decision. We started with the higher-friction, higher-stakes planning problem. Expanding into lighter-weight, single-day coordination is definitely interesting and your comment is a good nudge in that direction.
Since there has been more than one case of this misunderstanding in the thread, I've changed the title to say "retreats" instead of "events". That (to me at least) that implies overnight stays.
Will you provide context around how you got involved and got your neighbors to vocalize? I think there’s a lot of learned helplessness and cynicism that gets in the way of making things better. I know I personally suffer from this and lack the tools, motivation, and follow-through to make an impact.
I’ll just link you to my reply but getting involved with a group about your specific first-world problem shouldn’t be difficult. For everything else either start a group or join one.
I also protested during BLM and advocated for repealing 50-A amendment that gave criminal police protection from prosecution in NY. And we succeeded at that too!
I went to a meditation garden yesterday and noticed their signage was much more nonviolent and “together” inducing than most, without coming across as too woowoo:
Next to a Koi pond:
“Will you help protect these beautiful fish? Help us by not throwing coins, food, …”
> If you can fully describe what you need to the degree ambiguity is removed, you’ve already built the thing.
Trying to get my company to realize this right now.
Probably the most efficient way to work, would be on a video call including the product person/stakeholder, designer, and me, the one responsible for the actual code, so that we can churn through the now incredibly fast and cheap implementation step together in pure alignment.
You could probably do it async but it’s so much faster to not have to keep waiting for one another.
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